Analysis of Global Terrorism

Shreehar Joshi

Contents


  • Introduction
  • Datasets
  • Progress
  • Setbacks
  • Future Works

Introduction


  • Acts of violence with intentions of causing harm
  • Catastrophic effects on people’s lives
  • Terrorist incidents from 1970 - 2017 are analyzed
  • Questions: Region, Country, Group, Method, Target etc
  • Effects of terrorism on GDP, Migration and Fertility Rate

Datasets

Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Columns:
  • iyear: The year in which the incident occurred
  • country_txt: The country name in which the incident occurred
  • region_txt: The geographic region in which the incident occurred
  • prov_state: The name of the 1st order subnational administrative region
  • city: The city in which the incident occurred
  • latitude: The latitude of the city in which the incident occurred
  • longitude: The longitude of the city in which the incident occurred
  • suicide: A flag indicating if the incident was a suicide attack
  • attacktype1_txt: The general method of attack and broad class of tactic used
  • targtype1_txt: The general type of the target/victim
  • gname: The name of the group that carried out the attack
  • motive: The motive of the terrorist attacks
  • weaptype1_txt: The general type of the weapon used in the incident
  • nkill: The total number of confirmed fatalities for the incident
  • World, Region, Country GDP/GDP per capita
    Columns:
  • Country Name: The name of the country
  • Country Code: The three-letter codes for the countries
  • year: The year for which the GDP data is recorded
  • GDP_per_capita: GDP per capita for a specific country in the given year
  • World Population
    Columns:
  • Year: The year for which the population data is recorded
  • Migrants(net): The net number of migrants in a country
  • FertlityRate: The fertility rate of a specific country
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    Setbacks


    • Reading Files
    • Git Large File Storage
    • Resizing Plots
    • Standardizing Data
    • Quarto Presentation

    Future Work


    • Finalizing word cloud for motives of terrorst attacks
    • Analyzing terrorism’s effect on socio-economic factors
    • Modeling to predict the number of casualties
    • Visualization for ranking of terrorist groups